Mika Braginsky

Pronouns: they/them

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I’m a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, advised by Ted Gibson.

Before that I was a research assistant in the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, working with Mike Frank.

Research

Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning: The Wordbank Project

Book of large-scale cross-linguistic analyses using data from the Wordbank project

Consistency and variability in children's word learning across languages

Paper on predicting words' acquisition trajectories from their properties

Tools

Wordbank

Database of vocabulary development data and interactive tools for its access

wordbankr

R package for retrieving data from Wordbank

childesr

R package for accessing childes-db, a database of child language corpora

rwebppl

R interface to the WebPPL probabilistic programming language

ggpirate

R package for making plots of data with categorical independent variables

tidyboot

R package for doing tidyverse-compatible bootstrapping

jglmm

R package for fitting generalized linear mixed effects models in Julia from R

Teaching

Lab in Psycholinguistics

TA spring 2018 & spring 2019

Miscellaneous

Interactive visualizations

Cambridge election results 2017
Trends in name genders
Multilingual translation